Improved camp bedstead



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Leners Para.: No. 100,386, dafeaMmh 1, 1ero.

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The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J osErH EVERIGKX, of Paris, in the Empire of France, trunk-maker, have invented a new and useful Improved Portable or Camp Bedstead and Traveling-Trunk Combined; and do declare the following to he a truc description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings. A

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the bedstead, whereby it may be placed or packed into a chest or other suitable receptacle.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my camp or traveling bedstead.

Figure 2, a plan of the same FigureA 3, a cross-section showing the folded up in the lid, and

Figure 4, a plan of the same. y

The rectangular chest or trunk A is composed of a body, a, and lid, b, turning on hinges, which said lid contains a small iron folding bedstead, as seen in figs. 3 and 4, capable of being spread out rapidly, as will b'e hereafter explained.

This bedstead is constructed as follows:

A back support, c, is jointed by a pair of levers, d, to the sides of the lid b, andinas also jointed thereto two feet, f j; which are adjustedy upon the lid, and which form the two supports for the head ofthe bedbedstead stead, and catches o (see Figure 5) securely fasten these feet.

A second independent iron frame, g, also has two feet, h It, which constitute the other two supports of the bedstead. These feet are fixed rigidly by a small iron stay, upon which they are secured by small rotary cramps, j..

I'lhese two frames are united by canvas or other material, k, of a convenient length, (shown in detail, Figures 6 and 7 which is attached thereto by cords passing through eyes in the frames.

Between the two frames, to form the sides of the bedstead, and on each side of the canvas, is introduced a rod or stitfening-piece, I, formed of two parts turning on hinges, (see Figures 8,9, and 10,)ea'ch carrying au auxiliary foot, fm, which tits into a 'socket inside the chest A. K

The extremities of the stiftening-pieccs l are laffixed. by joints to the two frames c and g respectively, and the hedstead is thus perfectly solid in` all parts of its surface and frames.

The tension of the canvas k maintains the proper setting of the bedstead, .and this tension is regulated by the inclination of the back frame c, which is in its turn commanded by the ratchet and pawl n placed on,

each side of thc bedstead, where it is jointed to the said back trame, (see Figure 15.)

To refold the bedsteadl and to placeit in the cover A b of the chest A, the foot is raised and turned on theV hinges of the two stieniug-,pieces l. The two auxiliar-y feet m are then raised, as shown in dotted lines, fig. 1. The frame g is then folded over the back snpport c, the s tiieners I, which are passed through overlaps in the canvas, are drawn out, and the feet of the two frames dismount-ed; the small rotaryolampsj are unfastened, andl the stay fi, as well as the feet h. It, which turn on an axis fixed to the frame g, are folded thereon.

The supports ff of the back frame c are then disengaged from the side of the lid b, and they, as well as the levers rl jointed to the lid, are folded onto the frame c. Y 4.`

Thetwo frames with their supports being thus reduced to their smallest dimensions, are deposited one upon another, and are coveled in the bottom of the lid b by the canvas, where they are secured by the straps p p placed for that purpose.

Before this the stiffening-pieces l are folded up, 4as in iig. 9, and placed in the bottom ofthe lid b, the bedstea'd as shown in fig. 4.

The operation of unfolding and setting the bed'stcad requires no longer time -than its folding, and thus a great advantage is in many cases gain'ed,besides which no screws, bolts, pins, or other objects capable of being mislaidare used;

' To transform the bedstead into a portable stretcher without moving the sick person, it is only necessary to adapt to the supports of the'bedstead the two pieces q, seen in detail in Figures 11, 12, and 13.

"llle pieces are composed of two levers of wood, iron, or other substance, 1' r', jointed by hinges at the point cv, each of which levers-r lr has a wooden handle, s s', capable of prolongation, andslidiug in rings fixed to the said levers.

Fig. 11 shows one o f these pieces q folded up when the'stretcher is dismounted.

Figure 14 shows a b'edstead in perspective, and in position for use, to which the stretcherv is adapted, and it isV seen that the iron clips t t, bear against each other to inclose the auxiliary feet of the bedstead.

I have represented in dotted lilies the two wheelsI u uf, adapted at the headof the bedstead to transform it into a wheel stretcher.

vHaving thus described the nature and particulars of my invention,

l clairm- 1. The two frames c and g, supported respectively by their legs f and h, and combined with the' folding side-pieces l and the canvas k, all constructed so as to fold into compact form, substantially as set forth.

2. lncombination with the above, thehandles s s, arranged upon the folding side pieces l, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification before two subscribing witnesses.

C. LAFOND, l". OLooT'r. 

